Konstantin Vlasenko

Try to solve the problem with the well known tools. Try to use as less as possible tools while you automating something.

Don’t try to expand your knowledge with the new tools or framework without clear understanding that the old one can’t really solve the problem.

Only the “code-less” can be the reason for a new tool if the old one can solve the problem.

VMware itself recommends using VMware Server for testing and development, and the commercial variant VMware ESXi for production systems.

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html

http://top.rbc.ru/society/12/10/2009/336472.shtml

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По данным французских СМИ, на улице находится около 13% ядерных отходов, отправленных на переработку в небольшой закрытый сибирский город, передает Reuters.

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"Хранить на территории своей страны радиоактивные вещества с периодом полураспада в 24 тысячи лет слишком дорого, поэтому опасные для жизни грузы везут в Россию", – поясняют эксперты.

IMAGINE a civilization with an access to virtually unlimited energy

http://www.josephnewman.com/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8837004260826102354#docid=-3747078809628665374

The Lifter works without moving parts, flies silently, uses only electrical energy and is able to lift its own weight plus an additional payload. The Lifter uses the Biefeld-Brown effect discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown in 1928.

http://www.antigravitytechnology.net/current_anti_gravity4.html

There are some limitation for the free version of ESXi http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2009/06/esxi-vs-esx-a-comparison-of-features.html

But we can use the vmrun command line tool to automate common operations such as stop, start, runProgramInGuest.

examples:

vmrun -t esx -h https://0.0.0.0/sdk -u root -p password list

vmrun -t esx -h http:/0.0.0.0/sdk -u root -p password -gu domenuser -gp userpassword runProgramInGuest "[C_Drive] MyLab/MyLab.vmx" notepad

vmrun -t esx -h https://0.0.0.0/sdk -u root -p password stop "[C_Drive] MyLab/MyLab.vmx " hard’

vmrun -t esx -h https://0.0.0.0/sdk -u root -p password "[C_Drive] MyLab/MyLab.vmx " start’

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html

1. Get ISO image from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/index.php?p=free-esxi&lp=1

2. Put it on CD

3. Plug this CD to your server and make the quick installation

4. Go to your server http://server/…You’ll get the Welcome Page

5. Download vSphere Client from this page. Install it.

6. You’ll be notified about evolution mode (60 days)

7. You need to get the serial number from the WMVare site (login under you registered account and get it)

8. The features will be restricted after you applied the serial number (http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2009/06/esxi-vs-esx-a-comparison-of-features.html)